It's been a few posts since I've
written about cards. Let's see, my last post about hockey or
baseball cards was....still looking....still looking...October. Huh.
It's been a while, hasn't it. Especially for what nominally
qualifies as a card blog. I guess I should work a few posts in about
cards. I haven't been buying too much lately due to a self-imposed
financial limit and the fact that I haven't been “wowed” by much
lately. So, how does one acquire new cardboard? Trades of course!
This one was sent to me by Trevor. I
left a comment on his blog, he left one on mine. There were emails
involved and then we finally hashed out a deal. He has the ambitious
idea of completing a master set of 2012-13 O-Pee-Chee Hockey and I
had some Rainbow Parallels hiding their light in a cardboard box. He
had some cards I needed and with the help of the US and Canadian Mail
systems I had some new cards.
2010 Topps “The Cards Your Mom Threw
Out” Eddie Murray
One of several of Topps' “Hey let's
just reprint cards we've made before!” inserts over the last few
years. This one features the regular back as opposed to the
“original back” which features, well, the original 1978 back of
the card.
To my knowledge my mom never threw any
of my cards out. Did you, Mom? DID YOU? She had plenty of chances.
Most notably during college when I spent four years in Florida and
kind of lost interest in collecting. In fact, if I'm not mistaken
they actually moved the collection from my childhood house to the
townhouse they lived in while I was in college. Thanks for not
throwing out all of those Gregg Jefferies rookie cards!
2012-13 OPC Pavel Datsyuk and Tim
Gleason
While not as ambitious as a master set,
I have been trying to put together a complete set of the 2012-13 OPC
hockey set for the last 3 years. At this rate I should be done
sometime around 2021.
2012-13 OPC Bobby Orr Short print
One of the reasons it will take so long
is because of cards like this. The dreaded short print. The regular
base set is about 500 cards so why not throw another 100 short
printed cards on top of it. Christ sometimes this hobby drives me
insane.
1983 Topps George Brett
A set I'm a little closer to completing
is the 1983 Topps baseball. I've actually knocked out most of the
“big cards” like the Wade Boggs rookie. This is one of my
favorite designs of all time. I like the action shot mixed in with
the floating head.
When I think of the first cards I
bought/owned it's the 83 and 82 Topps that come to mind. Those were
the cards that I kept first in shoe-boxes (hey I was like 8 years old
and didn't know better) and are the ones that have been in my
collection the longest. I have since acquired older cards, but these
are the ones that I look back on with the most fondness. I would
have missed these the most if my mom had thrown them away.
And look at that uniform. No belt!
Those are the baseball pants we grew up with, kids. You knew you
were on a good team when you got a uniform that included a belt. If
I remember correctly, I didn't have a belt until high school. That
was a good day.
If you guys have some extra O-Pee-Chee
lying around – head over to Trevor's site and help the kid out.
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